How much $ do you spend on groceries every week/month?

[Nocturnal]

I start a new job next week and I'm trying to figure out my expenses. I'm thinking $200.00 a month for groceries? Or is that not enough?

 

[Drakkon]

20 a week if that...i say $200 a month is overspending....

add in $50 or so for cleaning supplies and tp,etc though

 

[nycxandy]

200 is more than enough for yourself.

 

[Ameesh]

not enough, i eat out too much

 

[vi edit]

That's $6.66 a day. It's doable. But it gets boring fast, and isn't always that healthy. One *GOOD* meal out and you can't eat (or at least eat well) for three days.

 

[TallBill]

My personnal food expense would be about 350 a month, not including any nice going out dinners.

 

[MacBaine]

Well Ramen is usually 5/$1 at Meijer... so 3 meals X 7 days X 4 weeks = 84/5 = ~$17.

So for less than $20 a month you can enjoy 3 meals a day.

 

[fredtam]

I spend around $450 for me, the wife, and the brat. It will probably cost you more than you think.

 

[Gurck]

About $200 a month on groceries; that doesn't count my (too frequent) trips to Wendy's or household stuff.

 

[Ameesh]

wow you guys eat cheap!

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
Well Ramen is usually 5/$1 at Meijer... so 3 meals X 7 days X 4 weeks = 84/5 = ~$17.

So for less than $20 a month you can enjoy 3 meals a day.

And have about 250% your RDA of sodium along with it

 

[Eli]

My girlfriend and I spend about 200$ a month on groceries for the two of us.

 

[CptObvious]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
wow you guys eat cheap!

They've gotta budget for their $500 video cards

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
wow you guys eat cheap!

I probably spend $50/month at Wendy's though And you should always shop on a full stomach. You'll spend less and buy healthier stuff. I do, at least.

 

If we don't eat out, around 400 per month.
We buy a lot of produce, and a lot of meat
not much of the frozen stuff at all
both my wife and I are good cooks

of course, our daughter is eatin like a fricken hog now, so that number is about to go up
(not to mention the baby that will be added to the family on tuesday)

 

[xyion]

I spend roughly $100/month on groceries that I keep in my apt. this does not count eating out however.

 

[DaWhim]

$20/week is about right. I spend about $5 for a dinner sometimes.

 

[poopaskoopa]

I'm probably at about $150-170/month or so... You can easily go over $200, if you're not into eating cheap meat though... When I was in college, I was able to keep it under $70/mo. Back then my diet involved a lot of eggs, SPAM, and rice.

 

[tallest1]

I eat $3 vegetarian meals daily, drink about $4 worth of Orange Juice every 3 days, and eat whatever on weekends. That makes my budget somewhere around $160 a month

 

[Gooberlx2]

too damn much.

 

[nageov3t]

I spent $20-$40 / week for myself. mostly frozen dinners, canned food, and sandwiches.

 

[Nebor]

I was talking to this with bradruth on AIM a while back. Looking over my credit card bills, I spend nearly $1000 a month in restaurants. :Q

I figure about $200 for groceries, most of which I throw out. And $40 for the cat food each month.

 

[waggy]

hmm. we spend about $30-40 a week. But thats meals for every day of the week. thats for 3 people. the wife, daughter and I.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2
too damn much.

 

[shazbot]

... I'm budgeting $500/mo for just me... But I don't cook.